Author Archives: Hoosier

*BSD vs Linux

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I’ve been thinking about trying out one of the BSD family of Unices for a while, and this rant got posted to slashdot. It’s an introduction to BSD for the linux user, exactly what I need.

After reading it, I see many parallels between the BSD ports tree and Gentoo‘s portage. I also realize he’s got a valid point about the “quick hack now” and “elegant solution later” camps. Speaking from years of “quick hack now” work, they never go away.

Maybe after I get some of the more pressing projects out of the way. Like getting rid of the RedHat 7.2 boxes I’ve still got out there.

New genkernel

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gentoo unmasked the newest version of genkernel today. Normally, I’m all for forward progress, but this one has some silly dependencies:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 -doc +zlib -bindist
[ebuild N ] media-libs/lcms-1.11 -tiff +jpeg +zlib +python
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r3
[ebuild U ] sys-kernel/genkernel-3.0.1_beta4 [1.8]

I’m not all that interested in the whiz-bang feature of a boot splash (like the livecd), so I’m not going to install this. The side effect is that emerge -uv world does me little good now. But thats the great thing about portage, I can fix it.

Add an /etc/portage/package.mask of

>=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.0

and voila, I’m staying on genkernel-1.8.

Spiff-tastic.

Redhat–

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Well, one less production box running on RedHat. We’ve only got 1 RedHat box left now, and I’m not sure how to handle it.

I’ve had the luxury of doing swaps instead of in place re-installs on all the previous conversions, so this one will be a little more work.

Redhat 7.0 uptime

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Getting ready to cut another box over to Gentoo, and just wanted to record the uptime :

[xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx sysconfig]# uptime
9:43am up 387 days, 23:22, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 1.48, 1.46

Dubya and the Guard

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Maybe I should have signed up for ROTC when I was a student. If I’d have known you could act like this and still get leave on good terms, I’d have been all over that.

Oh, wait. My dad isn’t a politically well connected congressman so I CAN’T do that.

SQL 6.5 Migration Successful

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Well, my SQL 6.5 -> SQL 2000 migration was successful this time. (I’ve got a draft entry to finish before you can see the horror story that was my first try.)

Suffice it to say, this try was much better than the last, about an hour of downtime total. Yay. Only 1 production SQL 6.5 server left now, with projects in progress to remove it.

SQL 6.5 Migration Failure

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I’m trying to migrate an NT4 SQL 6.5 server to Windows 2000 and SQL 2000 using the SQL Server Upgrade wizard. We’ve got lots of data on the old server and some tables structures that I’d really rather not have to recreate by hand. Below is the horror story that was the attempted upgrade.
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